Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Remarks on Books on the Natural Sciences and Philosophy
	      in the Sorbonne Library

Written:first half of
		     1909Source:Lenin’sCollected Works, 4th Edition, Moscow, 1976,Volume 38, pp. 57 - 59Publisher:Progress PublishersFirst Published:1933
		     inLenin Miscellany XXVTranslated:Clemence DuttEdited:Stewart SmithOriginal Transcription & Markup:R. Cymbala&Marc SzewczykRe-Marked up & Proofread by:Kevin Goins(2007)Public Domain:Lenin Internet Archive (2003).You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.

Remarks on Books on the
		    Natural Sciences and Philosophy in the Sorbonne
		    Librarywere written on separate sheets
		    during the first half of 1909.Note that this document has undergone special formating to ensure that Lenin’s
	 sidenotes fit on the page, marking as best as possible where they were 
	 located in the original manuscript.

Richard Lucas,Bibliographie der radioaktiven
                  Stoffe,Hamburg und Leipzig, 1908, 8°.

(A. 47. 191).[2]

Mach,Grundriss der Physik(bearbeitet von Harbordtund Fischer), Leipzig, 1905-8, 2 Volumes, 8°.

(A. 46. 979).[3]S.F.j.  587.[4]

Max Planck,Das Prinzip der Erhaltung der
                  Energie,Leipzig, 1908 (2 Auflage) 12°.

(A. 47. 232).[5]S.j.j.63.[6]

Eduard Riecke,Handbuch der Physik, 4
                  Auflage, Leip-zig, 1908, 2 Volumes, 8°.

(A. 47. 338).[7]S.F.j.  301a.[8]

Fénelon Salignac,Questions de Physique
                  générale et d’Ast-ronomie, Toulouse, 1908,
                  4°.

(D. 55. 745).[9]C. 818 (2).[10]

J. J. Thomson,Die Korpuskulartheorie der Materie,Braunschweig, 1908, 8°.

S. D. e. 101 (25).[11]

In the Sorbonne library:

Vierteiljahrsschrift für
			wissenschaftliche Philosophie, 1909,Heft I. Raoul Richter’s review (sympathetic, indeed laud-atory) of:

Ludwig Stein,Philosophische Strömungen der
			Gegenwart,Stuttgart, 1908 (Enke) XVI+452 Seiten. (12 Mark.)

Seiten 1-293—philosophical trends—

294-445—philosophical problemsTen trends in philosophy[14]:1) neo-idealism (voluntarist metaphysics)2) neo-positivism (pragmatism) of W. James3) “new movement in natural philosophy” (Ostwaldand the “triumph” of energetics over materialism)4) “neo-romanticism” (H. St. Chamberlain, etc.)5) neo-vitalism6) evolutionism (Spencer)7) individualism (Nietzsche)8) geisteswissenschaftliche Bewegung[15](Dilthey)9) philosophiegeschichtliche[16]10) neo-realism (Eduard von Hartmann!!!).

Max Schinz,Die Wahrheit der Religion nach den neues-ten Vertretern der Religionsphilosophie, Zürich, 1908, 8°.(307 pages. 6. 50 Mark.)

Kr. Guenther,Vom Urtier zum Menschen, (Ein Bilder-atlas.) Stuttgart, 1909. (7-19 pfennig><1 Mark.)

A. Pelazza,R. Avenarius e l’empiriocriticismo, 1908?9? Torino (Bocca). 130 Seiten.

Spaventa,La filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni conla filosofia europea, 1908? 9? Bari (Laterza).

New books (1909):

L. Boltzmann,Wiener wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen,Leipzig, (Barth).

H. Strache,Die Einheit der Materie, des Weltäthers undder Naturkräfte, Wien (Deuticke).

Archiv für Philosophie,2
                  Abteilung=Archiv fürsys-tematischePhilosophie, 1908, Heft 4. Vitalis Nor-ström’ssecondarticle(Seiten 447-496)
                  ((interesting;almost all of it about Mach)).

Where is the first??Note—is it late??

[1]Letters and numbers denote
                  press-marks.—Ed.

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                  denote press-marks.—Ed.

[14]Ten Trends in
                  Philosophy—a list of ten chapters in the
                  first part of the bookModern Philosophical
                  Trendsby L. Stein.

[15]humanities
                  movement—Ed.

[16]philosophical-historical—Ed.